The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Workers Will Meet In Many Towns to Build Their Party The membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party in con- ion with the “Labor Party Cam- and Build the Party Drive” at Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St., to have been held Friday which v evening has been postponed to next 29 Tuesday evening, Nov. Other national meetings in the cam- paign are as follows: . 18. Duluth-Superior, ll, 6th & Tower Sts., Superior, V er. Saturday, Nov Party headqua Minneapolis, speaker. Saturday, Twin Cities at 5 So. 3rd St., Bedacht, Nov. ock, 19, Party headquarters, 38 Howe S' at 8 eaker, Mich. Jay Lovestone, Saturday, Nov. 19. Detroit, Workers Home, 43 Ferry Alex Bittelman, speaker. Sunday, N 2 Noon at headquarters, 8-20 Eagle $t., Buffalo. Alex Bittelman, speaker. Monday, No’ 1, at 8 o’clock. Slov- ak Hall, 5th & Fairmount Ave., Phila- delphia. W. W. Weinstone, speaker. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 8 o’clock. Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago. Max Bedacht, speaker. Haven, Conn ANOTHER FLIVVER STAR FALLS DETROIT, Nov. 17. Diehl, chief purchasing agent for the Ford Motor Company has resigned, it was learned today. Diehl, in | years, has handled pu running into the billions of dollars annually, He is the second high Ford official abruptly to resign recently. 6 CARDS FOR 5 CENTS Ha rd different LENIN (at the age of 16) LENIN (memorial card) TROTSKY All (26% discount on orders $1 or more) BUTTON—A bronze button of Lenin —-one inch in diameter. An attra tive button that should be en the coat lapel of every revolution- a exes . 50 A beauti- Ideal for MEDALLION OF -+ $1.00 PHOTOGRAPI For framing, Pho- to of Lenin 514x7% inches in sepia color .. Fetlp aie 10 LARGE PHOTO of Lenin for homes and club rooms, ches . 5 Workers Library Publishers 39 E. 125th St., New York, N. Y. Seldom has any book issued by a labor organization, at- tracted such welcome re- sponse as these collections of Red Cartoons. Thousands of copies have been sold of each number. 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WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 E. 125 St. New York, N.Y. —.25 j Max Bedacht, speak- | St. | Party | Fred H.} EXPLOITED MILL | LABOR OF SOUTH “SOLD” TO NORTH ‘Hosiery Strike Leader| Tells of Misery Carolina, | HENDERSON, North i Nov. 17.-The workers of the mill | villages of North and South Carolina, | | Georgia and Alabama are practically | |put on the block and sold into servi- tude by the power interests, and the e of commerce, declares Al-| , general organizer of 7ull Fashioned Hosiery s’ Union, in a recent analysis » in “Henderson—or Hell,” andj| in answer to the arguments of those) who dilate on the fund of cheap labor} in the South as an inducement to Northern manufacturers to move down there. The strike of 800 workers in the} Cooper Mi of Henderson, which re- | sulted in active strikebreaking by the state of North Carolina and the post- ing of militia armed with machine at the mills, focused interest on particular mill town, not much or better than most of the others. Hoffman led the strike there, | which was betrayed later by crooked jleaders, and is now posted in Hotel) mes THE DAILY WORKER, ‘NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1927 | Melbourne, Durham, N. C., where he| is raising funds for a further strug-| » a tic im southern mill town, Following |earst Papers Forgers| Tried Blackmail | is part of his description of Hender-| |son, | “At 6:30 in the morning we watch | |the villagers going to work, men, |is nothing but shameful opportunism. | |women and children, very reluctantly,) “It is shameful because those are| |very tired after a night’s rest. They|the very same faked documents with Jare in overalls, and the women in|which certain parties tried to black-| cheap cotton slips with sunbonnets on! mail the government of Mexico. They |their heads. Some of them barefoot,| were offered for sale in $25,000 to| |some of them ragged, but all of them | our consulate in Los Angeles, on Aug. | tired. At ten minutes to six the nigfit/24 last, through Dr. Cutberto Hidal- shift goes in, tired too. At 6 p. m.|go; and even before knowing the text the day shift comes off and the ma-|of the documents, so sure were we of | chinery keeps on going without a|their lack of authenticity that our stop. Many of the men, and most of|consul was ordered to refuse the offer the women and children drag them-|and to inform the sellers that the selves along, almost too worn-out to|Mexican government was not inter- |ested in them, nor did it care whether | (Continued from Page One) reach their homes. | of pessimism swept the ranks of con- “For supper you find, fat pork| | without even the trace of lean, beans,| home-made biscuits, corn bread andi| |perhaps a few potatoes or yams, if| are lucky. You sit on 69-cent | or more likely it will be a soap) . Perhaps you will eat off aj unk, perhaps off a table. In most | cases the tablecloth is last night’s newspaper. There is little paint on \the wooden walls of the rooms, no paper, hardly ever a picture. The) floors sag and if it is not dark you) can see the ground through the floor. | | There are no screens on the windows, | Typhoid Water. “If you want water take a pail and get it from the spigot outside, how-| ever, if you want water fit to drink| you will have to walk ten yards or a| quarter of a mile for it. If you are! |afraid of typhoid, or don’t like dirty | water, you won’t drink water at all. |The workers are practically put on |the auction block and sold at low wages. The southern power inter. ests, and southern chambers of com. merce are the auctioneers, selling the south to manufacturers with the bait| of thousands of workers to be shame-} fully exploited. | “Once you start to work in Hender- son you get so deep in debt that you) can’t get away. Here are typical) | cases: | | Case No. 1. | | ‘Mother working. After rent and fuel has been deducted frgm her pay, |she draws 35 cents for 55 hours’ | work. She has three children in school whom she tries to support. Under better conditions she can earn $6 per week. Her statement to me was, ‘Mah Johnathon are gettin’ larnin’ all they were published or not. Blackmail Attempt Failed. | “Now some American newspapers | are publishing these very faked docu- ments, after some months have} elapsed, the blackmail having proved | a failure. | “The shameful opportunism of this publicity clearly aims to hinder an accord between the two governments in matters at present under negotia- tions.” The foreign office statement was made just after Manuel C. Tellez, the ambassador, had returned from Mexi- co where he had conferred with Presi- dent Calles, Offered to Other Papers. | Embassy officials also asserted that | the same documents were offered for sale on a number of occasions to representatives in Mexico City of sev-| eral American hewspapers and news agencies, but all of them refused to purchase them. The price for which the forgeries were offered to Amer-| ican news agencies in Mexico was but 16,000, a $9,000 reduction for the blackmail price asked for the for- geries in Los Angeles. Because of Hearst’s interest in Mexico as the owner of millions of acres of land expropriated from the peasants and because he fears the en- forcement of the land laws will again place this land in the hands of its rightful owners his chaih of papers publishes the forgeries after other publications have turned them down flat. Close political observers here see in the Hearst publication of the series of forgeries an attempt to justify the | frightful action of American armed forces in Nicaragua and the ravaging | stages of framing the new bill after jof Utah, thafrmat of that country by American imper- ah evah got were what mch man|ialism in order that the proposed teached me. Abh’l be glad when he|canal from the Atlantic to the Pa-| can help. |eifie may be built as an aid to the) Case No. 2. |military and naval power of the | “Mother and daughter working,| United States in carrying out its de- joint average earnings, $10 per week, Site to dominate that part of the after rent is deducted. Mother in| Word. Bigs Sag | last stages of tuberculosis with yel- | |low dried-up skin, without flesh, ‘bat Expect More Obregon Attacks. |with a wonderful smile. Her daugh-| MEXICO CITY, Nov. 17.—Warn-| iter, 19 years old with a hacking tu-|ings against further attempts upon| | bercular cough spitting blood. Son/|the life of ex-President Alvaro Obre- | jin last stages of tuberculosis barely| on, who is a candidate to succeed | able to move, gasping for breath,| President Calles, was sounded in the Kourd in home during strike without |!ower chamber of congress early to- screens on windows, without a bit of|¢@v by Jose Ancona, friend and ad- |medicine, fresh milk, or eggs, very | herent of Obregon, |little other food. Mother discovered jafter she had been sitting up with production in September, The federal district police said they) | would probably reveal at once the | thing but an encouraging sign. Fin- The Equitable Gas Co. of Pittsburgh on Monday morning put a crew of men with torches to repair a gas tank inte which they let some gas. The men supposed the tank empty. about fifty men, workers on the tank and in the pottery works next door, and wounded an unknown num- ber, amounting to several hundred, of the working class residents and passers-by in the district. Photo shows babies’ bandaged heads—cut by steel projectiles from the explosion. neighborhood were destroyed by the blast. The resulting explosion killed The workers’ homes in the War Program Is Blamed for Death of Tax Cut Plan WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-A wave gressional advocates of a huge tax re- duction program today as the admin- istration began to exert pressure to hold down the cut. The war program is blamed. With the House Ways and Means committee still in the preliminary exhaustive hearings, proponents of a tax cut of $400,000,000 had virtually abandoned hope of success. The real fight, it was indicated, would ‘be between a revised demo- eratic house program for a $321,000,- 000 cut and the limitation of $225,- 000,000 set by Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon. Smoot Changes Front. The action of Senator Smoot, (R.), of the senate fin- ance committee, in changing his views after being called into confer- ence by President Coolidge, was re- sponsible for much of the pessimism. Although Rep. William R. Green, (R.) of Iowa, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, remained sil- ent following his conference with Mr. | Coolidge, he has expressed belief that 000. ‘ Mellon admitted that his program, which calls for a reduction of not more than $225,000,000, is based upon the decline of business during the present year as compared with 1926. Propping Up Coolidge Myth. In an attempt to bolster up the failing myth of Coolidge prosperity, Mellon gives it as his “optimistic” view that “while a slowing down of business in some industries may mean a drop in tax payments, this may be largely made up by the payments from other industries which have been going at a strong pace.” Faced with the fact of a gradual decline in all industrial lines_and a pronounced decline in some, especi- ally in coal and steel; with the auto- mobile industry in a disastrous condi- tion of uncertainty; with the acute dissatisfaction of the farmers, Secre- retary Mellon still declares that there has been no recession in 1927 that can be called “subnormal.” Major Industries Decline. Official statistics of the Treasury Department show a decline in major industries which all “optimistic” in- terpretations of the treasury experts cannot explain away. Steel and iron the last month for which the figures are avail- able, was less than in August and lower than in any months since 1925, In spite of this fact, Secretary Mel- lon refers hopefully to. the “apparent improvement” in the steel industry as a favorable sign.| If the “apparent improvement” gis based upon an in- crease in “inquiries” of prospective buyers of pig iron, and upon a small flurry of orders in steel, it is any- boy for five days and two nights names of prominent persons held in- keeping flies off hfm. Seven visits h plenty of promises from the Obregon last Sunday. communicado for the attack upon) ancial papers reported on Tuesday that iron consumers have been very slow in buying. county welfare worker brought no re- Only cne room in house with a water-| All children small. proof recf. Case No. 3. “Widow and two children. Woman sick and unable to work, Coopers (mill owners), through their attor- neys had gained judgment to have woman removed from home. Given transportation to Goldsboro, Case No, 4. “Single man had been fined for fighting, drunkenness, etc. Borrowed Her own words, bawn days. Ah’ve got moah to eat now than evah in mah life.’ That happened when she went on the strike relief list. Case No. 6. |per week. oftentimes at night. months was still paying on original) \didn’t- even have a suit to wear Sun- \days and no white shirts. Woman sults. Boy finally removed to sani-| debt. |tarium through pressure. Mother Case No. again working 55 hours with daugh-| “Widow with six children earning} ter. A good case of a living death.|$7 per work week of 60 hours nights. ‘Ah nevah lived so high in all mah} | “These are all cases of good hard “Man and woman working earning|workers, working steadily for years Jointly $17 per week, Five small|/and in debt when the time came for | children in family, Rent on house $2|an accounting. A big garden connected|tion of southern ‘prosperity’ and worked by both on Saturdays and} what southern mill owners are doing Only clothes|to the 100 per cent American, native- FF 3100 from mill, at the end of six|children had were blue shirts and born whites.” overalls, no shoes or stockings. Man wore men’s brogans because they lasted longer and were cheaper, her only dresses were 14 cents per yard gingham and cheap cotton! Had a man’s hat and couldn’t afford any other. Didn’t havé money enough to rent books for the children in school, nor buy shoes. This is a cross sec- jAirplanes and Machine} Guns in Colorado (Continued from Page One) 100 to urge the governor to recall his “rangers” and instead hold a public hearing on the strike issues, While officials of the assembly con- sidered names for the committee, hun- dreds of Denver trade unionists par- ticipated in a parade of sympathizers through Denver's streets to protest arrest of strike leaders. Leaders Arrested. Ev strike leader known to au- thorities has been jailed and is held incommunicado, In many cases the strikers were imprisoned without for- mal charges. The arrests followed raids om mass meetings of the work- ers. Several clashes occurred between strikers and the special officers but no one was seriously injured. Among those held are Roger Franceszon, national I, W. W. head, A. S. Embree, Paul Seidler, Kristen Svanum, Hugh Oehler, C, R. Orr, Karl Clemons, A. B. Harris and E. M. Hu- ber. Following the arrests, R, W- Henderson, Bakersfield, Cal., attor- ney, took charge of defense work for the I. W. W. Petitions for writs of habeas corpus have been filed on be- half of the leaders. Arrest Pickets. Arrest of the leaders has ‘had little effect on the. workers’ morale. De- spite reports of the daily newspapers claiming many have returned to work, lonly a few have left the ranks and | the tax cut would be under $300,000,- | none of the mines closed by the strike have resumed operation. Starting their campaign of intimi- dation in the southern Walsepburg district, the governor’s special police carried their work into the northern Col. Paul P, Newlon, commander of the state national guard, with a group of guardsmen, has been sent to the north with orders to arrest pickets. Armed Guards. Guards of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. properties are being armed with machine guns and coal camps through- out the state are rapidly assuming martial appearance. A machine gun has been placed in front of the Wal- senburg county courthouse, presum- ably to prevent delivery of the jailed strikers. Many of the prisoners have been taken to Pueblo; outside of the coal district. : , POWER LOBBYISTS Upholstergi Lefts BUSY TO PREVENT Force Officials to PROBE OF TRUST Fight for Pickets By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. Seek ‘Whitewashing by. ros ano lif, Nov. 17.— |The Upholsterers’ Union, Local 15, in- | Federal Commission E | troduced a resolution at the last meet- {By LAWRENCE TODD (Fed. Press).|ing of the Central Labor Council call- | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—That the |ing for a campaign of organized la- |e lobby headed by Josiah T. Ne -| bor of Los Angeles against the Anti- comb and his Joint Committee of Na-|Picketing ordinance of the city, which |tional Utility Associations, boasting|is being used by the Hill Bros, firm lan investment of $17,000,000,000, is|}at the present time to prevent strik- contemplating a new trick to escape|ing upholsterers from picketing their investigation by a special committee shop. The lution calls for mak- to be elected by the Senate, has been|ing a test case of the law, and to start reported to The Federated Press from|4 campaign for its r {an authoritative source. | The reactionaries have been | Not only does Newcomb’s lobby} Pussyfooting about this question for a ‘seek to avoid investigation by Sen.|long time, referred it to the Executive |Thos. J. Walsh’s proposed special | Board, H. Chait, organizer of the committee, but it is desperately de-| Upholsterers’ Union, appeared before termined that the Senate ‘committee | that body, and made a strong plea for | shall not pry into the seerets of the | political action on a united basis in a {holding companies in the power indus-| fight against this bill. When the of- \try, nor examine the books of power ficials made vague promises about |companies to learn the ‘actual cost of Using their influence with the poli« |producing and distributing electricity. | ticians of the city council, Chait again \'This inquiry into costs might result}demanded definite steps be taken lin sensational disclosures that would|°ther than begging favors of the affect the charges permitted by pub- | “friends of labor.” |lie utility commissions in the states, | The DAILY WORKER. : and might give a powerful impetus'to| He spoke in favor of a labor party |the demand for public ownership and/and independent political action as a operation of a giant power system | means of fighting for the workers’ across the continent. jdemands, pointing out that officials “Whitewash Trust.” jwere all enthusiastie about a Labo The trick, it appears, is to consist | Party in England, but ‘when it came lof a bland proposal that any iniiry | eee cee dodged the issue. He fur; be handled by the Federal Trade Com- ee ate to the Executive Board of ‘mission, which last spring issued the a entral Labor Couneil, that first section of a report.on Control of ie sags they liked it or not, the a ce |Power Companies in response to the| ae’ isha col ee do nothing foi | Norris resolution of 1925. This re-) 1) AILY WORK one, find only The |port was rambling, confusing and the or keake KER, ne representing | sprinkled.with references to the views|""° “°"Kers’ interests,” he declared, of power magnates on their own in- “The Friends of Labor.” iterests. It concluded with a -white-|_ Buzzel, secretary of the Central |wash statement that there is no power Labor Council, admitted that within | trust. one year every union in the city | Sen, Walsh has just made a decla- would face trouble because of the ration that he will re-introduce his|@Mti-picket law, but declined to da resolution of inquiry on the first day of the new session. He also says that the power crowd will try to sidetrack it, but he will fight afiy attempt to evade a vote on his demand for a di- rect investigation by a committee to | be elected by the Senate itself. Walsh does not propose that Vice-President Dawes, whose family is in the power |combine, shall name the members of | this committee. | His suspicion of Dawes is equalled by his distrust of the Federal Trade |Commission, since that body is now stacked by President Coolidge as a pro-privilege agency, Commissioners Nugent and Thompson—the last two liberals—are gone, and Commissioner | Humphrey, former corporation lobby- jist, dominates the policy. j Slated for Congress. The second section of the Commis- sion’s report under the Norris reso- lution, which will deal with the ‘‘sup- ply of electric power machinery and equipment, and on competitive condi- tions in the entire power field,” has been completed by the staff and is now being reviewed by the Commis- sion. ; It will probably go to Congress in December, and will presumably seek fields as well, jailing leaders there, |to prove that there is no private com-| bine embracing the Westinghouse and General Electric equipment ‘concerns, nor any power trust reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. | One section of the Norris resolution {the Commission—on majority vote with Nugent and Thompson dissent- ‘ing—referred to a complaisant at- | torney general, who ruled it illegal. \That was the demand that it probe the power lobby. Stock Watering. “The Commission shall also ascer- tain,” ran the resolution, “and report what, if any, effort has been made by the said General Electric Company Severe condemnation of tactics used |9T other corporations, companies, or- by the governor’s police is contained |ganizations, or associations, or any- in a statement issued* by the social service commission .of Colorado Me- thodist churches. Recalling the hor- rors of Ludlow, the statement declares the clergymen “view with apprehen- sion the development of the present coal strike.” The commission charges the police with “gross violation of constitutional rights in abridging free speech and free assemblage and in making arrests without placing charges against the workers.” Such tactics are provocative of violence, it concludes, The statement declares the church stands for collective bar- gaining and a living wage as a mini- mum in every industry. RENEGADE INDIAN KILLS. ANTLERS, Okla, Noy. 17. Major Victor Locke, Jr., a Choctaw Indian who played polities until he was appointed by the federal gov- |ernment “Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes” went on trial today over Battiest’s attempt to woo a girl of the tribe. Locke, with three followers, went to Battiest’s house, called him out, and shot him down on his doorstep. WET BEATS KLAN. DENVER, Colo., Noy. 17.—A wet Democrat, S. Harrison White, newly elected to the House of Representa- tives, announced today that he con- siders he has a mandate to seek re- peal of the Volstead act. He was op- posed by Lawrence C. Phipps, Re- publican state boss, who had the backing of the anti-saloon league and (the Ku Klux Klan. for killing Abner Battiest, an Indian, | The evidence is that) jone in its behalf, or in behalf of any trade organization of which it is a member, through the expenditure of money or through the control of the avenues of publicity, to influence or control public opinion on the question of municipal or public ownership of the means by which power is develop- ed and electric energy is generated and distributed.” Walsh is ready to ask that this in- quiry be made by his proposed special committee, along with the probe into holding companies, mergers, stock watering and extortionate prices for electricity. ICOR BAZAAR IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—-The “Icor” (Jewish Colonists In Soviet Russia) bazaar will open Nov. 25 at the Douglas Park Auditorium.’ The funds will be used to start a colony to be known as Chicago in the Crimea, So- viet Union. | LAUNDRY WORKERS’ UNION, WENATCHEE, Wash. Nov. 17 (FP).—Laundry workers here have organized a union in order to better |conditions. Local leaders were aided in organization work by officials of the Seattle Laundry Workers’ Union. MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, ‘San Fran- cisco, Nov. 17.-—The proposed flight of Captain Frederick A. Giles, British aviator, from California to Hawaii enroute to Australia, was postponed here today until tomorrow because of adverse weather conditions, en hbennstnitaais Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker! anything about it, other than see hig friends in the city council, who are usually silent when the unions ask favors of them. The issue comes before the Central Labor Council again at its next meets ing, and eyery effort will be made by the progressive bloc to prevent it be ing ditched or pigeon-holed. There i¢ no question that in the coming yeay | this will be one of the livest Assueg before the workers of Los Angeles oy | the political field, and a strong move | ment towards independent political | action should result on the part of th¢ labor organizations here. Mellen,Man Who Helped | Wreck Railroad, Dies eS CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 17. — Charles Sanger Mellen died today. Mellen retired from the presidency of the New York, New Haven & Harts ford Railroad in 1913 while his mane agement was under fire. The New York, New Haven & Harty ford was looted by an “inside gang, which made millions at the expense of the minority stockholders, and put thé railroad into the hands of receivers, A SHORT COURSE of _ ECONOMIC SCIENCE ai ih By A. BOGDANOFF Revised and supplemepted by S. M. Dvolaitsky in conjune- tion with the author, 'Trans- lated by J. Finebers. <6(OMRABE BOGDANOF E'S book is a comprehen- sive and popular intro- | duction tg the study of the | principles of Marxian philes- ophy. says in his preface, written in the dark days of Tsarist | reaction for the use of secret | | workers’ study circles; and it) ! serves today as a textbook in | hundreds, if not thousands, | | of party’ schools and study | | circles “now functioning Soviet Russia.” The first edition book was published in 1897 | | and the ninth in 1906, It was | first published in English in 1928—this “new edition, just issued, is the second, $1.00 in | of this ELE YTS OF POLITICAL | EDUCATION —By <A. Berd- nikoy and A. Svetloy. Paper, 1.00 Cloth, $1.80" | LENIN ON ORGANIZATION Cloth, $1.50 PUBLISHERS, Inc.* 89 E. 125th St, New York. | hd h) | | | | WORKERS LIBRARY * { | It was, as the author ||." eect nC RT SO A case